Kingpin by Richard Stratton

Author:Richard Stratton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 2017-03-22T04:00:00+00:00

THE HEROIN IS gone, the trial is over, and I am going through withdrawal. I can’t sleep. My legs cramp up at night, and I lie in my bunk staring at the cinderblock wall. I’m constipated. I seem to have lost my mojo. I am afraid of what the judge will do to me, though I will not show it or admit it.

Mailer comes to visit. He too is utterly stunned by the outcome of the New York trial.

“Rick, buddy, tell them whatever the fuck they want to hear,” he says. “I don’t want you to do all this time for me.”

“Come on, Norman. I’m not doing it for you. Fuck these people. They don’t get it. It’s a fucking plant. It will be legal someday if these fuckers ever wake up and get real.”

My mother comes to visit. She’s irate. No one can believe it. She says the old man, my father Emery, is taking it hard. He’s afraid he won’t live long enough to see his son get out of prison.

“Let’s not give up yet,” I encourage her. “There is the appeal. Let’s see what Judge Motley does to me at sentencing.”

In the presence of others, I keep up my pretenses. In the solitude of my cell at night, I face the harrowing prospect of the prime of my life being spent sucking ass in the Bureau of Punishment.

No! I’ll escape. I’ll … I’ll … I’ll do something. But no way am I going to do decades in prison. That must not happen.

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